List of FiOS channels
Verizon is currently building a fiber-optic television service, and plans to make it available to several suburban areas in the near future. However, they first must receive legal permission (in the form of a franchise agreement), and must fight the pressure that local cable companies place on state and local governments to block Verizon's television service. On September 22, 2005, Verizon began taking orders for FiOS TV in Keller, Texas and in Herndon, Virginia on November 21, 2005 1.
Service Tiers Include:
- Basic — includes 15 to 25 channels
- Expanded Basic — includes 175 to 195 channels
- La Conexión — Spanish-language package, includes 130 to 150 channels
- Movie Package — 44 movie channels (Starz!, Showtime, Encore, TMC, Flix and Sundance)
- Sports Package — More than a dozen sports channels including Fox College Sports, Outdoor Channel, Gol TV, and the Golf Channel
- Movie & Sports Package — All the channels from both the Sports and Movie Packages
- Premium Channels — HBO and/or Cinemax
- International Channels — Individually priced international channels including ART, TV Japan, RAI, and TV5
- Spanish Language Package — More than 20 channels of news, sports, and movie telenovelas in Spanish
- On Demand library (with over 1000 Free programs) (not including movie channel subscriptions)
All service tiers beyond basic require a digital set-top box to receive the television signal and decode for display on the television set.
TV is not available on FiOS business installations, though in some circumstances Verizon will install a second ONT to provide TV to a location that already has business FiOS.